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Free Download Edited by Andrzej Pleszczyński, "Germans and Poles in the Middle Ages The Perception of the ‘Other’ and the Presence of Mutual Ethnic Stereotypes in Medieval Narrative Sources"
English | ISBN: 9004417788 | 2021 | 460 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This volume examines mutual ethnic and national perceptions and stereotypes in the Middle Ages by analysing a range of historical sources, with a particular focus on the mutual history of Germany and Poland.

Free Download Katharine Simms, "Gaelic Ulster in the Middle Ages: History, culture and society "
English | ISBN: 1846827930 | 2020 | 656 pages | PDF | 77 MB
The Plantation of Ulster followed from the perceived recalcitrance and military strength of its Gaelic lords. This book examines the prelude to their final rebellion. After a brief survey of medieval Ulster’s heritage from the Iron Age and Early Christian period, it gives a detailed narrative of Ulster history from the eleventh to the early sixteenth century, relating the politics and culture of the province to developments in the rest of Ireland and Europe. It then delves into the ‘plain living and high thinking’ of its somewhat enigmatic society, operating largely independently of towns or coinage, describing in turn its chieftains, churchmen, scholars, warriors, court ladies and other women, and the amusements and everyday life of the people.

Free Download Elenestina Mwelwa-Mutekenya, "Establishing the Environmental Flow Regime for the Middle Zambezi River"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138031801, 1138373508 | PDF | pages: 191 | 108.6 mb
The Middle Zambezi, host to a rich biodiversity, is located in the central part of the Zambezi River Basin which covers eight Southern African Countries. The area is located downstream of three hydropower schemes. In the last decades, the floodplain riparian tree, the Faidherbia albida, vital for the local wild life, has shown a worrying decrease in its regeneration rates. This thesis explores establishing the environmental flow regime for the Middle Zambezi reach in order to minimise the impact of the upstream hydropower schemes on the river environment, using the Faidherbia albida tree as a biological indicator.

Free Download Christine Sixta Rinehart, "Drones and Targeted Killing in the Middle East and Africa: An Appraisal of American Counterterrorism Policies"
English | ISBN: 1498526470 | 2016 | 196 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The United States has repeatedly used drones to kill terrorists in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen in an effort to decrease terrorism and the vitality of terrorist groups. Targeted killing through the use of drones has become a foreign policy weapon to keep the United States safe from further terrorist attacks. However, it is suspected that these killings has actually led to an increase in terrorist group recruitment, terrorist attacks, and empathy for the terrorist group from the local population in addition to several other unwanted repercussions. The two part research question this book attempts to answer is, "What is the effect of drone targeted killing on Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen? And is it a successful method in the War on Terror?"

Free Download Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi Louise Lambert, "An Introduction to Psychology for the Middle East "
English | ISBN: 1527511820 | 2018 | 525 pages | PDF | 24 MB
An Introduction to Psychology for the Middle East (and Beyond) is more than the average psychology textbook. Written in simple English by local contributors in the field of psychology and academia, it not only covers broad concepts and major theories, but also provides students in the Middle East with culturally-relevant examples and indigenous research studies that highlight the ways in which psychology can be applied in their local contexts. Topic Boxes appear throughout the chapters to bring regional concepts to life, and discussion questions at the end of each chapter provide ideas for further exploration. With photos that capture the diversity of the Middle East, students will be able to envision a psychology that is representative of their experiences as they explore this visually-appealing textbook. In doing so, they will be better prepared to understand the relevance of the discipline to their personal lives and the societies in which they live.

Free Download Andrew Hoberek, "The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work"
English | 2005 | pages: 176 | ISBN: 069112146X, 0691121451 | EPUB | 0,8 mb
In The Twilight of the Middle Class, Andrew Hoberek challenges the commonly held notion that post-World War II American fiction eschewed the economic for the psychological or the spiritual. Reading works by Ayn Rand, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Phillip Roth, Flannery O’Connor, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and others, he shows how both the form and content of postwar fiction responded to the transformation of the American middle class from small property owners to white-collar employees. In the process, he produces "compelling new accounts of identity politics and postmodernism that will be of interest to anyone who reads or teaches contemporary fiction.

Free Download Benjamin Wheaton, "Suffering, not Power: Atonement in the Middle Ages"
English | ISBN: 1683595998 | 2022 | 232 pages | EPUB | 6 MB

Free Download Laurie Postlewate, Wim Husken, "Acts and Texts: Performance and Ritual in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance"
English | 2007 | pages: 362 | ISBN: 9042021918 | PDF | 4,0 mb
For the Middle Ages and Renaissance, meaning and power were created and propagated through public performance. Processions, coronations, speeches, trials, and executions are all types of public performance that were both acts and texts: acts that originated in the texts that gave them their ideological grounding; texts that bring to us today a trace of their actual performance. Literature, as well, was for the pre-modern public a type of performance: throughout the medieval and early modern periods we see a constant tension and negotiation between the oral/aural delivery of the literary work and the eventual silent/read reception of its written text. The current volume of essays examines the plurality of forms and meanings given to performance in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through discussion of the essential performance/text relationship. The authors of the essays represent a variety of scholarly disciplines and subject matter: from the "performed" life of the Dominican preacher, to coronation processions, to book presentations; from satirical music speeches, to the rendering of widow portraits, to the performance of romance and pious narrative. Diverse in their objects of study, the essays in this volume all examine the links between the actual events of public performance and the textual origins and subsequent representation of those performances.

Free Download A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Middle Ages
by Burnett, Charles;Moureau, Sébastien;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1474294545 | 241 pages | True PDF | 9.76 MB

Free Download The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know®, 2nd Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CP2QSBN7 | 2023 | 7 hours and 2 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 354 MB
Author: James L. Gelvin
Narrator: Kent Klineman
In the second edition of The New Middle East, renowned scholar James L. Gelvin explains how in the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR, the American invasion of Iraq, and the Arab uprisings of 2010-11, a new Middle East has emerged. Syria, Libya, and Yemen have become "crisis states," where warlords vie against governments and each other. The economies of Iran, Turkey, and Lebanon, weakened by corruption, sanctions, and neoliberal economic policies, have imploded. Some states have doubled-down on repression, while others intervene in the internal affairs of their neighbors with impunity.